By the way, I've discovered a neat anti-carpet monster measure; every once in a while I go over the carpet near my desk with a canister type vacuum cleaner, but where its end tube connects with the flexible hose I insert a bit of old nylon stocking. After a few passes I stop and disassemble the parts, and the stocking has filtered out all kinds of tiny parts I never thought I'd see again.

Our dock workers were not lazy this weekend and we accomplished to cut out, bend and glue together the last 16 single 25 mm AA-guns before the employer could get a serious patience deficiency. Carpet Monster also struck again and actually we had to build 17 guns

have to say, I'm just a tad envious you can spend the whole weekend on your build: My wife n kids would never allow that!

Well Russel,

actually I may just exaggerated my spelling "whole" weekend - in fact it was the whole weekend of my sparetime after I entertained the wife and two small daughters and after I went out for a big stroll into the forest with our dog

sorry mates for the radio silence lately - I´m still alive but struggling with all these tiny PE-parts for the 25 mm triple AA guns. I am sure my eyes will deterior at least one diopter until all these guns have been finished. The carpet monster is another serious thread here too...

Here are the parts of the six remaining shielded AA-guns. I do use a mix of Flyhawk and BIGBLUEBOY parts.

These are the first two prototypes finished. Another six shielded and two unshielded are still to come

And when we accomplished that there are the sixteen single 25 mm guns waiting for me

Nice work on painting the canvas and setting those railings. I do have a concern with how the bridge superstructure is sitting on the deck. There seems to be a wide gap on portside between the deck and the superstructure. Do you any plans to fill it in?

Mark

I tried to close some gaps with a shot Kristal Klear and it worked very well

After it was dry I masked off the areas and painted the affected areas

Simon thank you. Yes she is getting very busy now and I really need to take care where to touch her in order not to break parts away (which already occured with the funnel cables . I already finished the frontal railings; just the middle and aft ones missing. Then we are coming to the armament...

Nice work on painting the canvas and setting those railings. I do have a concern with how the bridge superstructure is sitting on the deck. There seems to be a wide gap on portside between the deck and the superstructure. Do you any plans to fill it in?

Mark

Mark you are absolutely right about that - I will look if I could fix that with a thin needle and a shot of Kristal Klear, injected into the gap. If its dry I just need to overpaint the clear surface.